Elements of Legal Style

Name: Elements of Legal Style
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ISBN: 9780195141627

ISBN-10: 0195141628

ISBN-13: 9780195141627

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Bryan A. Garner

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Focusing on the argumentative, narrative, and descriptive style found in legal briefs and judicial opinions, The Elements of Legal Style (second edition) will be a thought provoking examination of effective argumentation in law.

Book details

List price: $32.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/21/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 8.31" wide x 5.79" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Bryan A. Garner is president of LawProse, Inc., and Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University. The editor-in-chief of Black's Law Dictionary, Garner is the author of several best-selling books, including Garner's Modern American Usage and, with Justice Antonin Scalia, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts and Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges.



Acknowledgments


Foreword



The Letters of the Law



Fundamental Rules of Usage


Punctuation


Word Choice


Grammar and Syntax



Fundamental Principles of Legal Writing



Some Matters of Form



Words and Expressions Confused and Misused



Rhetorical Figures in Law


Comparison


Wordplay


Syntactic Arrangement


Repetition



An Approach to Legal Style


Being Yourself


Exposition and Argument


Speaking Legally


Expressive Tactics



A Parting Word



Eighty Classic Statements About Style


Index